The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-08
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When the smokestack of the Allen
town thread mill is completed it will be
227 feet high, the loftiest in the United
States.
AS prevention against trichinosis
small quantities of pigs meat coming
from Poland into Silesia are now exam
ined at any of the toll stations at fee
of Cd.
The Chicago board of education has
decided to name one of the new public
schools in that city .'the Washburne
school, in honor of the late E. B. Wash
burne.
A tower now being erected on the
highest point of the Mount of Olives by
the Russians will be SO high that the
Mediterranean and Red seas may be seen
from the top of it.
Sam Jones, the revivalist, had the
udacity to say before a Boston audi
ence that he did not believe in couture
with a big c. And Boston now be-
Geves in Jones with a small '.i'
There is strange natural curiosity in
Fayette county, Indiana, known as Shaky
Hill. 1t comprises about twelve acres,
and is occasionally subject to tremulous
movements affecting several acres of
land. This phenomenon has been noticed
for tifty-seven years.
An American dentist has been fined in
Berlin for putting the title doctor on
his cards. The judge said the law .ap-
piled to all foreigners; he would fine even
the crown princes doctor, DIR. Mackenzie,
if he attempted to use the title doctor"
in Prussia.
The remains of John Oakly were dis
inferred and reburied near Albuquerque,
N. NJ, recently. and it was discovered
that his face and head were covered with
a thick growth of hair, although when he
was buried ten years ago he was both
bald and beardless.
Mrs Craik was prompted to write her
last book, can Unknown Country,
which discusses the condition of the poor
in the north of Ireland. by overhearing
the remark of laboring man, who, when
rallied upon helping little girl across the
street, replied. Gay, but 'andful of 'elp
Poultry men say that pullets Matched
by incubators and raised in brooders lay
much sooner than those hen Matched and
raised. A Trenton man has one of these
artificial young hens that began laying
| when 10 weeks old, and has laid an egg
day ever since.
AT public auction of old furniture in
,of4 T -
the other day, claw foot mahogany
sofa that had belonged to Thaddeus
Stevens was knocked down for $40; a
three legged table that once occupied
place in ''Old Thad's'' office brought only
| So, and an old quaint looking glass that
had belonged to him sold for $3.50.
| The Guild of the Iron Cross is new
| Catholic organization having for its OBJ
| ject the spreading of the principles of
temperance reverence, and chastity. Fa-
ther Field, of Philadelphia, the guild s
chaplain general, has just returned from
a successful tour in the west and in Can
ada, and reports 1000 members, 1T
priests and bishops connected with the
guild,
| 1t is stated that German steamship
recently took to Colon from Africa 700
Liberians, men of gigantic stature and
powerful physique. They were half
naked, carried queer looking bundles
upon their shoulders, and spoke Ian
guage which no one else on the isthmus
understood. 1t is said that / 500 more
will follow, ard that these men will
work on the Panama canal.
Chief Drummond, of the United States
Secret Service, in reporting on n band OF
Italian counterfeiters now operating in
this country. has called attention to the
existence OF formidable secret organi-
zation originating in Sicily, but having
branches in New York, Boston, Chicago
st Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco and
several other cities. The members Of
this society are described asassassins and
villains of the worst type, engaged in al
sorts of criminal schemes, but especially
in the cQunterfeiting business.